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Why our growing taste for cheap Brazilian beef is devastating the Amazon
Chris Pala
5th April, 2011
Brazil’s cattle sector has become the largest driver for deforestation globally, overtaking palm oil plantations in Asia. With the UK sourcing 40 per cent of its processed beef from Brazil, campaigners are now calling for a consumer boycott. Chris Pala investigates more...
Revealed: paper giant 'linked to Indonesian forest trashing' targeted activists
Mandy Haggith
30th March, 2011
A little-reported legal battle in Italy between paper company Pigna and eco-activists from Terra! is leading to fears that it may open the way for big companies to muzzle legitimate environmental protests. Mandy Haggith reportsmore...
7 ways to help stop tropical deforestion & illegal logging
Peter Dauvergne & Jane Lister
11th March, 2011
A store like Walmart can wield more power than a country over a logging company - especially in the global South. But what's good for Walmart is not always good for the planet. Peter Dauvergne & Jane Lister outline 7 key tools for retailers to limit the impacts of timber consumption more...
Greenpeace hits back at 'notorious forest destroyer' Asia Pulp and Paper
Ecologist
23rd February, 2011
Campaigners urge retailers to follow example of Tesco and Adidas in cutting links with the controversial paper and packaging supplier after latest allegations of greenwashing more...
Greenpeace: Asia Pulp and Paper's PR is greenwash, their sustainability claims a joke
Ian Duff
23rd February, 2011
Tesco, Adidas and others have already cut ties with the controversial paper and packaging supplier. In a scathing response to recent APP claims that it is greening itself, Ian Duff urges others to follow suit - until APP adopts sustainable practices more...
WWF calls for 'scaling up' of beef production to combat deforestation in Brazil
Ecologist
22nd February, 2011
In an interview with the Ecologist, WWF Brazil CEO Denise Hamu says increasing productivity can help combat deforestation in the Amazon more...
Denise Hamu: Brazil 'needs to increase' beef and soya productivity
Matilda Lee
22nd February, 2011
Matilda Lee talks exclusively to the head of WWF Brazil about controversial beef and soya production, the REDD mechanism and deforestation, as well as the wider environmental challenges facing the emerging economic powerhouse more...
World's largest ecological experiment to examine impact of oil palm plantations
Tom Levitt
1st February, 2011
Ten-year project will look at whether setting-aside natural forests within oil palm plantations can save threatened species such as the Orang-utan, Pygmy Elephant and Clouded Leopard more...
UN forest protection plans failing because of land scarcity and demand for food
Tom Levitt
24th January, 2011
REDD-type forest agreements ignore indigenous populations and are seeing a scramble for forest 'carbon credits' by governments and individuals, warns study more...
Indian activists risk death to expose illegal logging, pollution and mining
Ambika Hiranandani and Tom Levitt
14th December, 2010
The recent death of Indian environmentalist Amit Jethva was the latest in a growing number of disturbing incidents of brutality and violence against activists, report Ambika Hiranandani and Tom Levitt more...
Logging company accused of ‘misleading public’ with carbon conservation project
Kara Moses
3rd December, 2010
Controversial Indonesian company Asia Pulp & Paper has come under fire from environmentalists because of 'false claims' over Sumatran rainforest carbon reserve more...
Deforestation could fuel deadly spread of malaria, yellow fever and Lyme disease
David Hawkins
17th November, 2010
The economic and climate-related impacts of forest destruction are well known, but continued logging could unleash devastating new pandemics and spread fatal diseases into the human population, scientists tell the Ecologist more...
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How a new generation of eco-filmmakers are challenging broadcasting convention
Laura Sevier
26th October, 2010
From the Age of Stupid to the End of the Line, and next year's Just Do It, independent filmmakers are innovating with radical film subjects and creating whole new funding streams, reports Laura Sevier more...
Lack of forest definition ‘major obstacle’ in fight to protect rainforests
Kara Moses
20th October, 2010
In the second in our series examining REDD we report how ambiguous forest definitions are putting the future success of forest protection schemes in doubt and allowing logging companies to destroy biodiverse habitats more...
Fears of corruption as REDD forest-protection schemes begin
Lynn Morris
13th October, 2010
Misunderstandings and scepticism around schemes that pay countries to protect their forests are rife, with fears that without proper policing it will be a magnet for organised crime and corruption more...
Plant life in peril - IUCN and Kew Gardens study
Dearbhla Crosse
29th September 2010
Alarming new research reveals human activity is 'devastating' plant life ahead of UN biodiversity summit, with up to twenty-two per cent of the world’s plants facing extinction more...
Bush-meat demand fuelling secretive trade in Guinea-Bissau's primates
Dearbhla Crosse
29th September 2010
Logging, mining and agriculture are opening up Guinea-Bissau's once intact forests to the ravages of the bush-meat trade, an Ecologist investigation finds more...
Special report: Horrific bush-meat trade stalks Guinea-Bissau
Dawn Starin
29th September 2010
In a remarkable and harrowing dispatch from Guinea-Bissau, Dawn Starin reports how logging, mining and agriculture are opening up the country's once intact forests to the ravages of the growing bush-meat trade, threatening some of the country's most enigmatic monkey species more...
UK public unaware they could be contributing to illegal logging - WWF
Dearbhla Crosse
20th September, 2010
Many consumers mistakenly think that wood and paper products sold in the UK are not sourced from illegally logged timber linked to deforestationmore...
Shell funding of forest protection scheme could result in 'largest land grab of all time'
Ecologist
8th September, 2010
Oil giant's investment in Indonesian REDD conservation project is a crude attempt to increase profit and gloss over its expanding oil drilling operations, say campaigners more...
Securing a future for Amazonian rubber-tappers
Giovana Zilli
8th September, 2010
A pioneering initiative is helping to rebuild the traditional local economy and livelihoods of the Amazonian rubber-tappers more...
Cargill sticks with rainforest-destroying palm oil supplier
Ecologist
6th September, 2010
US food giant refuses to stop buying palm oil from Sinar Mas group as Burger King joins Nestle and others in criticising its illegal activities more...
Norway accused of 'hypocrisy' over ethical investment
Tom Levitt
24th August, 2010
The Norwegian government has sold its investment in one Malaysian logging and palm oil company but remains a big shareholder in another accused of destroying rainforest and orang-utan habitats more...
WWF president: I think the US is doing a lot on climate change
Kara Moses
18th August, 2010
WWF president Yolanda Kakabadse on how the media is only interested in ‘doom-mongering’ on climate change, why the US isn't a block on negotiations and how governments are trying to reduce the influence of NGOs more...
Palm oil giant Sinar Mas admits breaking law by clearing peatland
Tom Levitt
11th August, 2010
Indonesia's largest palm oil and pulp company started clearing land for palm oil plantations before it had received permits or made conservation assessments. Tom Levitt reports more...Members
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